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Evaluating Philosophies

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The daily press and most of its readers tend to confuse science with technology. For example, the Science section of most newspapers reports news in engineering and medicine. By contrast, Science, Nature and the other scientific periodicals publish almost exclusively papers in disinterested research.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Mario Bunge

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Bunge, M. (2012). Technoscience?. In: Evaluating Philosophies. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol 295. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4408-0_4

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